Example sentences of "a few days before " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resultant paste is cask-conditions for a few days before bottling . |
| 2 | Only a few days before his state 's 40th anniversary celebrations , he has been obliged to accept a deal permitting several thousand of its citizens to flee to the capitalist Federal Republic . |
| 3 | In 1987 perhaps the Prime Minister 's pre-election visit to Moscow and her eve-of-election trip to the Venice summit of Western leaders were favourable to her re-election , but ‘ Harold Wilson always asserted that a bad set of trade figures a few days before polling cost him an election , while the effect of being centre-stage during the Iran hostages affair may have been devastating to Jimmy Carter 's fortunes ’ . |
| 4 | It was a few days before Michael Ramsey first became an undergraduate at his college . |
| 5 | He left just a few days before Christmas in 1984 . |
| 6 | These comments , coming from the NRA 's senior scientist a few days before the Government 's Green Bill is due to be published , add more problems to the rough passage already faced by the legislation . |
| 7 | I saw him in hospital a few days before the end . |
| 8 | Goebbels instructed German press representatives on 19 October that ‘ it would still be a few days before the fall of Stalingrad ’ and recommended caution in reporting . |
| 9 | A few days before a new election was due to take place , at the beginning of March , a mysterious fire destroyed the Reichstag and the Communists were blamed for that outrage . |
| 10 | on collecting my T-shirt and participants instructions a few days before the event , I was rather alarmed to discover that we were expected to meet at Alexander Stadium at 7.45 a.m. on the Sunday morning , a time that I did n't really know existed even before my maternity leave ! |
| 11 | A few days before the vote on partition in the UN General Assembly , Abdallah secretly met Jewish Agency officials . |
| 12 | Gerry Fitt reiterated the point about Czechoslovakia ( the Soviet invasion had occurred a few days before ) . |
| 13 | This is why I joined the International Women 's Peace Delegation to Baghdad , a few days before the twenty eight nation attack on Iraq . |
| 14 | Nutty received the guff about the competition a few days before the date . |
| 15 | Eventually , we reached the stage where she could avoid it altogether a few days before a period , but she continued to drink one or two small cups a day at other times . |
| 16 | Brunel was a successful naval architect , and an outstanding builder of bridges and tunnels , to say nothing of his three great steamships , the Great Western , which sailed out of the Bristol Channel to open up the first regular passenger service between Europe and America ; the Great Britain ( see Bristol ) ; and the Great Eastern , which began its maiden voyage a few days before Brunel 's death in 1859 , and remained the largest ship afloat for nearly half a century . |
| 17 | Osorio was finished at last , and on 16 October , a few days before his twenty-fifth birthday , he sent a copy of the play , ‘ complete & neatly transcribed ’ , to William Lisle Bowles in Wiltshire . |
| 18 | The evacuation of children , and the mothers of children under five , from London and other large cities began a few days before the outbreak of war . |
| 19 | A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning . |
| 20 | A few days before the outbreak of war , instructions had been received to prepare and assemble the ambulance trains . |
| 21 | Just a few days before the launch the original pilot , Ken Mattingy , had been exposed to German measles and was found to have no immunity , He was replaced by his backup , Jack Swigert , who managed just two days prime-crew training before leaving for the Moon ! |
| 22 | He and his family escaped just a few days before the Nazi invasion , abandoning all their property and possessions . |
| 23 | After a short incubation period the fertilized eggs transform into medusa — tiny pear-shaped animals with rapidly beating hair-like cilia which are then released into the water and have a limited ability to swim and survive among the plankton for a few days before settling on the sea bed . |
| 24 | A few days before her arrival , I went with two friends to the Royal Palace , dressed up as the Three Musketeers . |
| 25 | Some British officers had been sent to help the Madeirans with their resistance , but they had arrived only a few days before the Portuguese troops landed and had not had time to organize . |
| 26 | Since the Bölkow is designed to go places — Nigel had returned from Cannes only a few days before my flight — this is a most useful addition allowing the relaxed study of maps , approach plates etc , without the constant monitoring of the aeroplane . |
| 27 | But money and the recession were forgotten as I skied in the brilliant sunshine of Obergurgl just a few days before Christmas . |
| 28 | A few days before the poll , an attempt was made to interest The Guardian in a story that Harold Wilson was involved in land speculation . |
| 29 | After these reconnaissances during October , a final reconnaissance was made a few days before the invasion , by the teams going inshore one night so that each navigator could show the paddlers their canoes ' positions as navigational marks guiding in the assault waves on D-day . |
| 30 | His son Carl later recalled that a few days before his father 's death there was already a terrible stench of decomposition , the advanced state of which apparently made an autopsy impossible . |